Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R help

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UrbanFuturistic

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A friend hit me up because he was getting rid of his media-server, and asked if I wanted it. So I picked it up, and now I can't get it to boot.

The setup:

intel C2Q Q9550
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
2 kits of Mushkin DDR2 XP2-8500 2x2GB(8GB total)
120GB SSD
500GB HDD
GTX 950/HD4870(Not both at the same time, but wondered if the 950 had something to do with it, had been know to work previously with the HD4870)

I can get into the bios, and sata drives are recognized, but it will not boot into Windows. Stops at "Verifying DMI Pool Data......" Won't go any further. Also, I cannot get it boot from a USB drive. I am almost sure that there is something I am missing because I haven't had to deal with hardware this old in a long time. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I don't have any EIDE drives to try.

Edit:
It is not the processor, nor the socket. I installed the processor into a Dell C2D machine I have, and it booted up with no problems. My reasoning was that I wanted to make sure I didn't botch the install and bend pins. I am going to play around with the ram next.

Edit 2:
I removed the SSD I was trying to boot with and now everything works. What gives?
 
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Not sure if those older (775) boards can read/detect an SSD as it was before their time. I've got the same board with an E8400. I've had issues with it booting from any SSD. Toss a spinner in it and the sucker super boots up.
 
Can't remember off hand. I'll check tho, but I'm sure it does have it.

*Edit* Found it. Under:

Intergrated Perephials:
ICH SATA Control Mode:
IDE
RAID
AHCI
 
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Try a different port or a different SATA cable (or even an different SSD). I have a p35 variant of the same board and it works with a Crucial M4 SSD with zero issues.
 
UrbanFuturistic said:
I will try those out and report my findings.
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I think my old ep45 had 2 different sata controllers, one was Intel with a few ports and the other was asmedia or something and had purple sata ports while the Intel says ports we're yellow iirc.
 
The intel ports are yellow, I believe there are six. The two purple ports are some sort of gigabyte something or other.
 
I am running an Intel DP45SG P45 board and saw the same problem a few years ago (may have been unrelated problem on an odd hardware setup).... why I was interested. What I did, similar to what Nebulous said of throw a spinner in it. I put a Seagate Hybrid Drive in the Machine and called it GOOD. It's one of those platter drives with an integrated 8GB SSD cache on the drive. Makes it speedy enough. The 'puter is a Retro Gaming box. Took the Intel DP45SG board and maxed the hardware I could install on it. CPU is a C2Extreme QX9650 and a full 8GB of Kingston QVL listed RAM ( board picky about RAM), NVidia GTX650 2Gb (for now), and a Hyper 212 cooler ( or similar Zalman, forget). Always wanted to throw in an SSD to maximize the throughput of the SATA II ports. That's about the only real upgrade I can do to the Retro Box.... Good Luck.

Try a Hybrid Hard Drive if no success with SSDs, UrbanFuturistic....
 
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Man this was a long time ago, BUTT:

I have my Q6600 on GA-P45T-ES3G w/ SSD plugged into a blue SATA port on the mobo, no problem.

I also have Q9550 on GA-P35-DS3L that has 4 yellow SATA ports w/ 1 DVD & 3 spinners
~ DVD + XP + 2 Win7 64's (got virus, installed 2nd Win7 HD to cleanse, saved clean data, formatted that HD to storage)

At some point, I added a SATA card w/ 2 external & 2 internal SATA ports

I am using the 2 external SATA's for backup HD's + my current Win 7 64 OS is on that SSD card.

I had to mess with my BIOS to make that SATA / RAID card bootable & forget what I did to make it work.

It took at least 6 beers, probably more, but I got it to work. :rolleyes:

It's been running for a few years now.
 
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